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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Standard of Living and Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister for that response. It is an encouraging number. I did not think we would be at that level already. That is good. I will highlight two issues in this regard. The Minister flagged one regarding the recruitment process. Someone came to me about the starting the process of trying to look for a job, and a person with a visual impairment, for example, would encounter...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Standard of Living and Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That is fair enough. One of the topics we talk about frequently in this committee is that the topic of disability straddles several Departments and it can be difficult to align things sometimes. My impression is that the Council of Irish Sign Language Interpreters, CISLI, comes under the national disability inclusion strategy, NDIS. Does that mean it falls within the ambit of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Standard of Living and Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: It is a relatively new group, and I am under the impression that it comes under the NDIS.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Standard of Living and Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I have one quick question, which I suspect someone else has already asked the Minister and I missed it. We are and will be having a significant influx of people fleeing the war in Ukraine. Like all communities and cohorts, a certain percentage of those refugees will be people with disabilities. People are even finding it difficult to leave Ukraine because of their disabilities and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Standard of Living and Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I wish the Minister "good afternoon" and thank him for being here. I am sure we will talk at length, probably today, about the constitutional issues. I am aware that there are probably people who are better placed than I am to ask some of those questions. One area I would like to touch on is the interaction with various pieces of legislation and whether there is a piece of work being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Therefore, the equality legislation would be a key one for review. I am asking, particularly in the context of addressing gender-based violence. Obviously, it is against all genders, but I think we can all accept that it is often more specifically against women. In the case where legislation is proving to actively possibly exacerbate the situation, and I am particularly thinking of our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I am glad to hear that we will be listening to the experiences of sex workers on that. I have a follow-up question. Something the assembly asked us to bear in mind when placing this before the Oireachtas was that everyone must be supported in achieving their own potential regardless of their gender identity. Many households in the country are receiving the census documents at present and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: To be clear, Chairman, I would consider gender-based violence in general to include the issue of sex work, regardless of whether a review is ongoing.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Given the various high-profile issues we have seen with certain construction projects, from mica in Donegal to the dangerously constructed schools that the Department of Education is dealing with, it is clear we need better control over construction projects. The Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022 and Deputy Duffy's Defective Dwellings Bill...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Refugee Resettlement Programme (5 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 122. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the actions she is taking to ensure that the large volumes of Ukrainian refugees being accommodated in small communities are supported to achieve the best outcome for those refugees and the communities themselves; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17928/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (5 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 399. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the online portal that will allow queries for all application types to be submitted directly to the passport service by Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17418/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 644. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the exact date in 2021 that CHO 4 mental health service management staff were offered first dose Covid-19 vaccinations as part of the HSE vaccination roll-out (details supplied) by role in tabular form; if he will provide the exact date in 2021 that CHO4 mental health service heads of discipline were offered first dose Covid-19...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (5 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 826. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 325 of 3 March 2022, the way identifying relocation arrangements for unnamed residents of a centre (details supplied) constitutes an ethical breach of confidentiality given that relocation options for other service users have been provided; the message that was conveyed to residents of the centre regarding the future of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (5 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 827. To ask the Minister for Health the names of any HSE managers that declared a conflict of interest in respect of procurement or rent of property by the HSE in each of the years 2016 to 2021; the details of the procedure within the HSE for declaring such a conflict of interests and responding to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18091/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (5 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 828. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the residents of a centre (details supplied) were chosen to move to another centre for infection and control purposes during the pandemic while residents of wards in St. Stephen's Hospital were not moved and continued to share dorm-style rooms with up to three other residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18092/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 829. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is renting any community mental health residences aside from a centre (details supplied); if so, the details of the costs of rent and any associated costs; the duration of the rental arrangement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18093/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 830. To ask the Minister for Health the reason more funding has been provided for adapting a Carrigaline property that has not had planning permission for use as a mental health residence since it was purchased by the HSE in January 2019 than has been invested over a ten-year period in a centre (details supplied) which has capacity for almost twice the single-room occupancy level of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (5 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 834. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residents currently living in a centre (details supplied) that were originally residents in another centre. [18108/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (5 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 835. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 9 February 2022, if he will provide further details on the older person residential beds referred to in the response namely the number of those beds and the number of residents in a centre (details supplied) who will be transferring to the property in Carrigaline, County Cork; the location in which the remaining...